# Made-Up, False and Flat-out Wrong Trivia Dominoes **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [April 21, 2014, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580 "2014-04-21T03:04:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 18
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2014, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/341 "2014-05-06T16:34:04Z")
> [@CheshireKat](#): > > The Fourth Dalai Lama invented Boston Cream Pie in 1599. He was shunned by Zen pie purists and spent the last forty years of his life in Hamburg. …where he invented the hamburger. He would have invented Boston to give the BCP a home, but couldn’t afford ocean passage. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2014, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/342 "2014-05-06T17:18:14Z")
There have been less than 3,000 hamburgers cooked, served and eaten in all of human history, two-thirds of them in Louisville, Ky. ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2014, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/343 "2014-05-06T17:44:19Z")
Louisville, Kentucky is actually located 136 miles south of where it appears on the map, due to a conspiracy of cartographers. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2014, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/344 "2014-05-06T17:55:40Z")
The length of the Indianapolis 500 motor race is actually 136 miles. ---
**Author:** ![CheshireKat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheshirekat/32/1207_2.png) [@CheshireKat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CheshireKat)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2014, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/345 "2014-05-06T18:07:32Z")
Evel Knievel jumped a row of 136 slot car motors on his tricycle when he was three years old. ---
**Author:** ![Vita\_Beata](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a9a28c/32.png) [@Vita\_Beata](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vita_Beata)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2014, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/346 "2014-05-06T18:20:24Z")
One obscure provision of the Obamacare plan is that senior citizens are eligible to receive either one free senior tricycle every 5 years, or one free Segway every 3 years. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2014, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/347 "2014-05-06T18:38:57Z")
Senior Citizens get free lap dances at Gentleman’s clubs. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2014, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/348 "2014-05-06T22:31:21Z")
Senior Citizen was a Marvel superhero of the early 1990’s who was basically Captain America if he hadn’t been frozen in the iceberg at the end of WWII. ---
**Author:** ![Sr\_Siete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6de8d8/32.png) [@Sr\_Siete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sr_Siete)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2014, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/349 "2014-05-06T22:36:11Z")
Contrary to the popular cliché about icebergs being cone-shaped, most icebergs are actually round. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2014, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/350 "2014-05-06T23:02:38Z")
Iceberg lettuce is not classified as a vegetable, it is classified as weeds. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2014, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/351 "2014-05-06T23:02:58Z")
The Death Star was inspired by a gray, perfectly spherical iceberg that a young George Lucas had once seen on a round-the-world cruise. Lucas was taken on the cruise by his maternal uncle, Frank Sinatra. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2014, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/352 "2014-05-07T00:14:15Z")
It was heavily rumored that George Lucas “borrowed” the “image” of Darth Vader from [Boilerplate](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boilerplate_(robot)). ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2014, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/353 "2014-05-07T01:16:12Z")
“Boilerplate” was a failed Hannah-Barbara cartoon of the 1970s featuring a duo of young adventurers and their lovable rascal Boilerplate, an anthropomorphic steam boiler. As the title of the show might have suggested, it was yet another clone of Scooby-Doo. ---
**Author:** ![CheshireKat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheshirekat/32/1207_2.png) [@CheshireKat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CheshireKat)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2014, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/354 "2014-05-07T01:25:45Z")
Scoopy Doo was the first name pitched for a canine clean-up product. Both Hanna-Barbera and the PETA offshoot, PETAA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animated Animals) threatened lawsuits. As a result, the product name was changed to the Scooper Pooper. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2014, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/355 "2014-05-07T02:10:05Z")
New Years Eve, 1965, found William Hanna and Joseph Barbera drunk on the success of “Jonny Quest” and Moët & Chandon champagne. They created the following game: whichever one of them could create the most awful knock-off version of “JQ” (four protagonists and a dog having “adventures”) would get to have his name first in the partnership. Hanna won “hands down” with “Scooby Doo.” ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2014, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/356 "2014-05-07T02:12:35Z")
William Hanna’s mother was named Barbara and Joseph Barbera’s mother was named Hannah. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2014, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/357 "2014-05-07T02:23:53Z")
Lincoln’s carpenter was named Kennedy. Kennedy’s Lincoln (his automobile) was named Carpenter. ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2014, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/358 "2014-05-07T03:22:11Z")
One in five Lincoln Logs has at least one atom of the original cabin that Abraham Lincoln was born in, deliberately placed there by the manufacturer, who bought all remaining logs from the cabin upon the founding of their company. ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2014, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/359 "2014-05-07T04:11:08Z")
> [@drewtwo99](#): > > One in five Lincoln Logs has at least one atom of the original cabin that Abraham Lincoln was born in, deliberately placed there by the manufacturer… Which is a process performed by specially trained, highly endangered caterpillars holding several pairs of extremely tiny needlenose pliers. The procedure is one of the most highly guarded secrets in the corporate world, with all documentation locked away in a hidden vault with more security than Fort Knox. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2014, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/360 "2014-05-07T04:24:26Z")
Fort Knox is actually made of painted styrofoam over a wooden frame, a secret that the U.S. Government is at great pains to keep from the public. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580.md?page=17) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580.md?page=19)